Breakfast KeynoteSession: Using Data to Craft the Story and the Story’s Trajectory

Ron Fournier is the former publisher and editor of Crain's Detroit Business and now serves as President of Truscott Rossman. A Detroit native, he began his family and career in Arkansas, covering then-governor Bill Clinton before moving to Washington in 1993, where he covered the White House and national politics for The Associated Press during the administration of Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama.

A former columnist for the Atlantic, editor-in-chief for the National Journal, and Washington Bureau Chief of the AP. Fournier also served as 2005 fellow at the Harvard Institute of Politics, where he co-wrote the New York Times best-seller "Applebee's America." For several years, he served on Harvard IOP Board of Advisors. Before returning to Detroit in the fall of 2016, Fournier published a parenting memoir, "Love That Boy: What Two Presidents, Eight Road Trips, and My Son Taught Me About a Parent's Expectations." It debuted No. 10 on Amazon.com and was a New York Times best seller.

Fournier holds the Society of Professional Journalists' Sigma Delta Chi Award for coverage of the 2000 presidential election, and he is a four-time winner of the prestigious White House Correspondents' Association Merriman Smith Memorial Award.

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